TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kenny,Meryl
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Gender and political recruitment: theorizing institutional change 
T2  - Gender and politics
AV  - HQ1236 .K48 2013eb
U1  - 305.4209411 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Women
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Women political candidates
KW  - Recruiting
KW  - Scotland
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gender, Institutions and Political Recruitment -- 3. A Feminist Institutionalist Approach -- 4. Political Recruitment in Post-Devolution Scotland -- 5. Breaking With the Past? The Case of the Labour Party -- 6. The Story of a Selection -- 7. Applying a Feminist Institutionalist Lens -- 8. Rethinking Political Recruitment -- References -- Notes; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
N2  - "Political parties can make or break women's attempts to stand for political office, yet there have been surprisingly few systematic studies into the 'secret garden' of political recruitment. This book investigates this under-researched area, bringing together insights from feminist and new institutional theory to explore and understand the gendered dynamics of institutional innovation and change in candidate selection and recruitment. Drawing on an original empirical case study of candidate selection in post-devolution Scotland, Gender and Political Recruitment highlights the complex and gendered dynamics of institutional design, continuity and change in the political recruitment process and illustrates the difficulties of reforming recruitment in the face of powerful institutional and gendered legacies"--
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/gulbargauniversity/Doc?id=10717638
ER  -